FROME, Westmoreland-

The recently renovated football field at the Frome Sports Club is undergoing additional repairs following substantial damage it received over the past two weeks.

Just about four weeks after it was reopened after a nearly two-year closure for repairs, continuous heavy rains, as several games – including an ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel daCosta cup double-header last Wednesday, a Digicel Premier League (DPL) game between Reno and Rivoli on Sunday and another daCosta Cup game between Cornwall College and Grange Hill on Monday – forced the owners to effect emergency repairs.

The Frome area has received a lot of rainfall in the last two weeks, and this has left the field waterlogged and muddy in parts with depressions as deep as three inches in some parts.

There appear to be problems with the drainage as well, as water has also collected along both sidelines.

Ransford Malcolm, president of Reno, who returned to playing home games in the DPL at Frome last month on October 12, told the Observer West that work started on Tuesday morning following an inspection of the field the day before.

Malcolm said the plan was to patch out the worst-affected parts of the field and hopefully they would be able to roll it with a light roller by today if the rains stayed away.

Reno will not play a home game at Frome until the end of the month but several schoolboy football games are expected to be played on the field.